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Men in the News
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MR. H. A. DAVIS, chief buyer of Brown Brothers, Ltd., has completed 50 years' service with the company.
' MR. D. T. OArres has been appointed general line representative of the Avon India Rubber Co., Ltd., for I3erks and Oxon. He served his apprenticeship with the Austin Motor Co., Ltd.
MR. A. D. LIDDERDALE has left the A.P.V. Co., Ltd., to become chief mechanical engineer of the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co.. Ltd. Before the war he was with Leyland Motors, Ltd.
MR. PETER RYDER has resigned his position of managing director of Daimler Hire, Ltd., but remains on the board. MR. C. D. SWAIN and MR. L. M. MARSHALL have become joint managing directors, as from last Monday.
MR. J. S. TRENDELL is IO become assistant manager of the distribution department at the head office of ShellVex and D.P., Ltd. He will be succeeded as north-eastern divisional operations manager by MR. J. F. BROM.
MR. GEORGE DODSON-WELLS, chief public relations officer of the London Transport Executive, has become commercial advertisement officer of the British Transport Commission. • His deputy is MR. J. L. PERREN, previously assistant commercial advertisement officer.
MR. C. W. J. CLARIDGE, A.M.1.MEcu.E., has been appointed sales engineer of Commer Cars, Ltd., and Karrier Motors, Ltd., in place of the late MR. A. H. GLASSPOLE. Mr. Claridge served his appenticeship with A.E.C.. Ltd., and became assistant sales engineer of A.C.V. (Sales). Ltd., in 1948. He took up a similar appointment with Commer in 1951.
MR. F. BRIGGS has been appointed assistant London regional manager of Pirelli, Ltd. MR. W. M. HoGG has become NeWcastle district manager. MR. E. W. YATES, MR. F. R.. EWART, MR. G. F. BYRNE and MR. T. SMEATON DICK have taken over the district managerships in Nottingham, Leeds, Southampton and Cardiff respectively. MR. K. R. F. McMATH has been appointed Glasgow regional representative.
MR. F. T. BALL, controller of transport, Ministry of Works, who was awarded the O.B.E. in the recent Honours List, has spent many years in road transport. Before taking up his present position he was for 39 years in the service of the Post Office, in which he held the posts of area motor transport officer in West Scotland, Northern Ireland and Nottingham, and regional motor transport officer in Birminghain.
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MIL P. LOWCOCK, Newcastle-on-Tyne manager of Norris, Henty and Gardner, Ltd., has retired. He joined the company 50 years ago.
MR. JAMES LEEK, the former managing director of the Daimler Co., Ltd., IS improving in health, although he has had to resign after his recent operation. His duties are being undertaken by SIR BERNARD DOCKER, chairman of the B.S.A. group.
TORY M.P.S WANT LONDON TRANSPORT INQUIRY
I-1 A MOTION calling for an inquiry
into the operation and administration of London Transport has been tabled by Conservative Members of Parliament representing Metropolitan constituencies. It reads: That in view of repeated increases in fares and the threatened addition to the affeady heavy burden borne by all the travelling public throughout Greater London, this House calls for a searching and impartial inquiry into the whole administration and operation of the London transport system."
One of the signatories to the motion, Mr. E. Partridge, has written to the Transport Tribunal asking for a longer period to be allowed for the lodging of objections to the British Transport Commission's application to increase fares in the capital.